Vern Buchanan

Vernon Gale "Vern" Buchanan (8 May 1951-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-FL 13) from 3 January 2007 to 3 January 2013 (succeeding Katherine Harris and preceding Bill Young) and from FL 16 from 3 January 2013, succeeding Tom Rooney.

Biography
Vernon Gale Buchanan was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1951, and he served in the US Air Force from 1969 to 1975. He came to own an automative empire with several dealerships in Florida, his adoptive state, and he became a multi-millionaire. In 2006, he was elected to the US House of Representatives, and he held staunch conservative views, claiming to be a "life member of the NRA", a hunter, and a gun owner.